| Show difficult to determine sex of young chickens experienced poultry men find it hard to realize how difficult it Is for the inexperienced to tell the sex of chickens even at three months of age casts are known of cockerels cocker els of that age being shipped as pullets with the very best intention on the part of the seller seiler the storrs station gives the following helpful directions for detecting the mates males Pe perhaps rImps the surest and ana most satisfactory is method of determining the sex ot of those individuals about which one Is uncertain Is to examine the feathers on the back and saddle yon on the males these feathers will be long ind nd pointed while the edges will how a 1 characteristic sheen and an absence of the barbutes bar bulos bules which give the web of an ordinary feather its olid appearance in other words the ends of the barbs on the back feathers of a cockerel are perfectly smooth and there Is a very definite space between them the pullet leathers feathers on the other hand have a short rounded and blunt appearance an entire absence of sheen so that the whole surface of the web presents the same general up appearance bearance it if these thesa differences are kept in mind there will be very few individuals in the flock which cannot be correctly classified as to sex ses |
